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Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat will remove the current clock applet and replace it with a very simplified applet which you probably already have if you installed Unity in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid. If not, this is how it looks:

As you can see, it's just a simple clock, with no weather conditions.

But a new Weather Applet was released on Launchpad (pictured in the beginning of the post) which comes with indicator applet support, lots of configurable options and notifications - which you can set to give you severe weather alerts or just weather conditions change:

Weather Indicator Applet also comes with an extended weather forecast:

Being still experimental, there are bugs: even though I've set the temperature unit to Celsius, it displays the extended forecast in Fahrenheit. Also, the panel applet doesn't seem to change (it shows a sun while it's 12:07 AM here).

To install the Weather Indicator Applet in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx or Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, use the following commands: